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1586 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1586 in Ireland. – Richard Creagh, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, dies a prisoner in the Tower of London, county Longford is shired, separating it from Westmeath. Robert Gardiner is appointed Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, sir Edward Waterhouse is appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland. Elizabeth I of England and James VI of Scotland agree in the Treaty of Berwick that the MacDonnell family, antony Hickey, Franciscan theologian William St Leger, Anglo-Irish landowner and military commander May 5 – Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland c. – Richard Creagh, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh
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1585 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1585 in Ireland. January - Sorley Boy MacDonnell lands at Cushendun with a substantial army, April 26–May 25 - Parliament of Ireland meets in Dublin with Sir Nicholas Walsh as Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare, is permitted to take his seat and his head is set up in Clonmel market place and his body buried behind the high altar of the Franciscan convent. July 15 - Composition of Connacht, A commission is given to Sir Richard Bingham, governor of Connacht, murrough na dTuadh Ó Flaithbheartaigh is recognised as Chief of the Name of Ó Flaithbertaigh in Galway. July–August - Sir John Perrot, Lord Deputy of Ireland, is in Ulster, October - Sorley Boy MacDonnell, having returned to Ireland, recaptures Dunluce Castle. November 16 - Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare, dies in exile in London and is succeeded by his son Henry FitzGerald. December 14 - Nicholas Walsh, Church of Ireland Bishop of Ossory, is stabbed to death in his house in Kilkenny by a member of his flock. Tadhg mac Diarmata, last de facto King of Magh Luirg, is succeeded by Brian na Carriag MacDermot, tuileagna Ó Maoil Chonaire composes the poem Labhram ar iongnaibh Éireann. Máel Sechnaill Ruadh Ó Braonáin of Galway is recorded as one of the last harpers of the period in Connacht, thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara, soldier Possible date - Sir Dominick Browne, merchant and landowner April 30 - Maurice MacKenraghty, Roman Catholic priest and martyr. November 16 - Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare December 14 - Nicholas Walsh, Church of Ireland Bishop of Ossory and biblical translator
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1584 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1584 in Ireland. July - English government commissions a survey of Munster, following the Desmond Rebellions, Sir Valentine Browne is appointed to the task. It becomes known as the Peyton Survey after Sir Christopher Peyton The Spanish Arch is built in Galway, perrott subdivides Cavan into seven baronies. Richard Stanihursts history De rebus in Hibernia gestis is published by Christophe Plantin in Antwerp, june 20 - Dermot OHurley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel, put to death for treason. Margaret Ball, died of deprivation in the dungeons of Dublin Castle, beatified in 1992
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1583 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1583 in Ireland. Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond, assumes command of the Crown forces, contains remaining activists in the Second Desmond Rebellion to West Cork and Kerry, Dermot OHurley, appointed Archbishop of Cashel in 1581, lands on Holmpatrick Strand in County Dublin. September - Fugitive Roman Catholic priest Maurice MacKenraghty is surprised on Sliabh Luachra by Lord Roches gallowglasses, handed over to the Earl of Ormond, october 8 - Archbishop Dermot OHurley is arrested and imprisoned in Dublin Castle. John na Seamar Burke is ambushed and killed by his brother Ulick, swords Castle briefly occupied by Dutch Protestants. Richard Nugent, 1st Earl of Westmeath, landowner and politician February - Nicholas Skerrett, november 11 John na Seamar Burke, rebel. Gerald FitzGerald, 15th Earl of Desmond, rebel, december - Thomas Lancaster, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh
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1582 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1582 in Ireland. July - Lord Grey, Lord Deputy of Ireland, is recalled to England, sir Henry Wallop and Adam Loftus, Archbishop of Dublin, are appointed lords justices responsible for the government of Ireland to succeed him. September - Fiach McHugh OByrne surrenders, ending the Second Desmond Rebellion in Leinster, ulick Burke secures succession to his father as 3rd Earl of Clanricarde by murdering his brother, John of the Shamrocks, and affirming his loyalty to Queen Elizabeth I of England. Date - Ambrose Ussher, Church of Ireland clergyman and Biblical scholar April 13 - Nicholas Nugent, july 24 - Richard Burke, 2nd Earl of Clanricarde, peer. March - Traditional melody Cailín Óg a Stór first on record
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Ireland
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Ireland is an island in the North Atlantic. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest on Earth. Politically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland, which covers five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, in 2011, the population of Ireland was about 6.4 million, ranking it the second-most populous island in Europe after Great Britain. Just under 4.6 million live in the Republic of Ireland, the islands geography comprises relatively low-lying mountains surrounding a central plain, with several navigable rivers extending inland. The island has lush vegetation, a product of its mild, thick woodlands covered the island until the Middle Ages. As of 2013, the amount of land that is wooded in Ireland is about 11% of the total, there are twenty-six extant mammal species native to Ireland. The Irish climate is moderate and classified as oceanic. As a result, winters are milder than expected for such a northerly area, however, summers are cooler than those in Continental Europe. Rainfall and cloud cover are abundant, the earliest evidence of human presence in Ireland is dated at 10,500 BC. Gaelic Ireland had emerged by the 1st century CE, the island was Christianised from the 5th century onward. Following the Norman invasion in the 12th century, England claimed sovereignty over Ireland, however, English rule did not extend over the whole island until the 16th–17th century Tudor conquest, which led to colonisation by settlers from Britain. In the 1690s, a system of Protestant English rule was designed to materially disadvantage the Catholic majority and Protestant dissenters, with the Acts of Union in 1801, Ireland became a part of the United Kingdom. Northern Ireland saw much civil unrest from the late 1960s until the 1990s and this subsided following a political agreement in 1998. In 1973 the Republic of Ireland joined the European Economic Community while the United Kingdom, Irish culture has had a significant influence on other cultures, especially in the fields of literature. Alongside mainstream Western culture, an indigenous culture exists, as expressed through Gaelic games, Irish music. The culture of the island shares many features with that of Great Britain, including the English language, and sports such as association football, rugby, horse racing. The name Ireland derives from Old Irish Eriu and this in turn derives from Proto-Celtic *Iveriu, which is also the source of Latin Hibernia. Iveriu derives from a root meaning fat, prosperous, during the last glacial period, and up until about 9000 years ago, most of Ireland was covered with ice, most of the time
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1588 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1588 in Ireland. June 28 - Sir Valentine Browne purchases estates, including the Lakes of Killarney, from the estate of Donald Maccarty, autumn/Winter - Much of the retreating Spanish Armada gets washed up on the Irish coast. MacSweeney Bannagh gives assistance to La Girona at Killybegs but on October 26 she is wrecked off County Antrim with only 9 survivors from an estimated 1300 onboard, brian ORourke assists at least eighty survivors – including Francisco de Cuellar – to depart the country. Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork and father of Robert Boyle, luke Wadding, Franciscan friar and historian
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1589 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1589 in Ireland. January 11 - Richard Meredith nominated Church of Ireland Bishop of Leighlin, spring - Murrough na dTuadh Ó Flaithbheartaigh and Teige Ó Flaithbheartaigh lead a rebellion in Connacht. On 5 April a commission is issued to deal with the disturbances, many of the rebel leaders are killed in an ambush at Easter. May - Commission to inquire into progress on the Munster Plantation, december 23 - Sir William FitzWilliam, acting for the Lord Deputy, begins a campaign against the Connacht rebels. Francis Kirwan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Killala Theobald Stapleton, Roman Catholic priest and writer February - John Fitzedmund Fitzgerald, - Sir Valentine Browne, Surveyor General of Ireland and landowner. Christopher St Lawrence, 8th Baron Howth
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1590 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1590 in Ireland. January 14- Sir William FitzWilliam, acting for the Lord Deputy, september 3- As part of the ODonnell Succession dispute the Battle of Doire Leathan is fought in County Donegal. Sir Donnell ODonnell, one of the claimants to the title, is defeated and killed by forces backing his half-brother. Sorley Boy MacDonnell, established the MacDonnell clan in County Antrim, resisted attempts by Shane ONeill and the English to expel them
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